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64 _ WIZARD WILL, THE WONDER WORKER.
cabin on the hill near the cottage,and had found them most willing to
-do all in their power to help his mother, and kad secretly made an
arrangement with them to leok after matters in his absence, the old
man to look after the horse, and his wife to milk the cow.
He had also ingeniously attached a wire from the cottage to the
cabin, with a ‘ell at the latter, so that his mother could call for aid
if she needed it. ee
* With country air, pretty scenery, pleasant quarters, fresh milk and
vegetables, and no worry about their daily bread, Mrs. Raymond
rapidly improved in health, and life became worth the living her, as
she strove hard to shut out the past.
Pearl started to school and made friends, and some kind-hearted
neighbours called upon the new-comers, so that the mother and
daughter were not wholly alone, while Wizard Will, when at home,
gave them many a pleasant drive abont the country, and row or sail
upon the Sound.
But Will did not neglect his work in the city, and, ‘setting to work
with energy and skill, he formed his League of Boy Detectives, and it
was but a very short while before the police force recognize) their
ability and acknowledged it, treating their ycung captain with as
much respect as they did their own commanders.
_ In due time Ed Ellis the kidnapper and marderer was tried, found
guilty upon the testimony of Wizard Will and executed.
Br. Rossmore came on to the trial, and urged Wizard Will once
more to become his adopted son, but Mrs. Raymond would not hear
: . Of it, and also declined positively to allow her son to bring the kind- .
hearted gentleman out to see her, as he wished to do.
Will felt hurt at this, especially as his mother gave no other reason
for her strange conduct than that she would not see any strangers.
With deep regret at Wili’s refusal to go with him Mr. Rossmora
returned to hia home in Maryland, and the boy settled himself to
hard work to win greater fame in the career which he had drifted
into by accident. :
Though he had several times seen Colonel Ivey in the street he had
avoided him, as his mother had earnestly requested him to do, and
the gallant soldier little dreamed’ that the name his eyes fell upon
now and thenin the papers as Wizard Will, was the one whose three-
dollar gold-piece he had found on Thanksgiving morning, and still
wore as a charm upon his watch-chain, while he deeply mourned for
the woman he had learned to love, and the children who had crept
_ into his heart as though they were his own flesh and blood.
One of the first duties that the brave young officer set for himself
to accomplish with his juvenile band of Secret Service scouts was tha
running to earth of the “Land Sharks,” and how he accomplished
the giant task is written in the Police History of New York City,
wherein no name stands out in bolder relief than that of Wizard Will,
the Boy Ferret of New York. . .
Those who wish to know how he accomplished his task, must
read “ Wizigp WILL’s Street Scouts,” the next number of the
Tip Top Tales. :
THE END.